Our House
A powerful family of creative projects exploring voice, silence, justice, healing and belonging.
Our House is a growing creative project from Words Chose Me that brings together installations, workshops, writing and public conversation. Across its different forms, it explores what happens behind closed doors and asks how stories can help us think more deeply about violence, survival, accountability, community and hope.
Overview
This page brings together the Our House project family in one public-facing place, connecting current work, developing strands and future possibilities for audiences, collaborators, venues and partner organisations.
Core framing
Our House asks what is hidden in plain sight, and what becomes possible when stories move from silence into witness, reflection and change.
What is Our House?
Our House is a multi-part creative and community engagement project that has evolved through installation, storytelling, workshops and public events. Each version opens a different door into questions of safety, silence, blame, belonging and change.
Some parts of Our House are created for public audiences, while others are held in more focused workshop or partner settings. Together, they form a wider body of work that asks how stories are shaped by home, community, institutions, culture and the things people are taught not to say.
What you’ll find here
This page brings the Our House project family together in one place, linking current work with developing strands and offering a clear route in for audiences, collaborators, venues and partner organisations.
The project family
Each part of Our House explores connected themes through a different creative form, from public installation and survivor-centred storytelling to workshops and facilitated reflection on silence, harm, masculinity, witness and institutional response.
Behind Closed Doors
The original Our House project explores what happens behind closed doors through a striking 25-door structure rooted in survivor-centred storytelling. It invites audiences to reflect on violence, silence, healing and the stories that too often remain hidden.
Who Killed Eve?
An 18+ immersive experience that invites participants to move through a house of clues, voices and evidence while confronting rape culture, victim-blaming, gaslighting and institutional harm. The work combines physical installation, audio material and facilitated reflection to open difficult but necessary conversations.
Where’s Adam?
A developing strand that turns attention to masculinity, witness, absence and responsibility. It asks where men are when harm is happening, what they have seen, what they have ignored, and what it might mean to step forward differently.
Who Helped Eve?
A developing strand focused on bystanders, systems, enablers and protectors. It asks who intervenes, who looks away, and what support, solidarity and accountability can look like in practice.
Doors into Bedfordshire
A Bedfordshire-facing development that connects the wider Our House ideas to local people, place, public conversation and creative participation. This strand opens the work further into a county-wide cultural context linked to story, identity and belonging.
Themes
Across the different versions of Our House, several themes return and speak to one another. Not every strand approaches them in the same way, but each asks what it means to live in a world where harm is often hidden in plain sight.
- Voice and silence
- Justice and accountability
- Healing and survival
- Masculinity and witness
- Home, belonging and place
- Community, systems and change
Workshops and public engagement
Some versions of Our House are experienced as installations, while others are designed to be explored alongside workshops, creative writing, facilitated discussion or partner-led engagement.
This allows the work to move beyond presentation alone and into reflection, conversation and participation. Depending on context, Our House can sit within public programming, cultural events, campaign activity, community engagement and more focused practitioner or partner spaces.
Possible formats
- Installations and immersive experiences
- Facilitated workshops
- Creative writing and reflective sessions
- Campaign-linked public events
- Partner and practitioner conversations
Press and partners
Our House has developed through public presentation, community collaboration and relationships with local and regional partners. The Press & Partners page brings together project context, audience-ready information and contact routes for organisations and individuals who would like to know more or explore collaboration.
Collaboration and context
Venues, commissioners, collaborators, journalists, community organisations, educators and cultural partners interested in thoughtful, story-led work shaped with care.
Current and upcoming
Our House continues to grow. Alongside the existing public work, new strands are being developed that widen the conversation around masculinity, accountability, place, faith, race and the role of community in making change possible.
This evolving body of work reflects an ongoing commitment to using story as a way to hold difficult truths, invite reflection and open up new conversations across Bedfordshire and beyond.
What this space can hold
This space can hold upcoming events, public dates, campaign-linked activity, Bedfordshire developments and future commissions as they are confirmed.
Get in touch
To find out more about Our House, discuss workshops, explore partnerships or ask about future programming, please get in touch through Words Chose Me.
Whether you are a venue, community organisation, cultural partner, practitioner, commissioner or curious audience member, we welcome thoughtful conversations about how this work can be shared, hosted and developed further.